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Authority: This work is being initiated pursuant to NIST’s responsibilities under the
Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) of 2002, Public Law 107–347.

Submission packages must be received by NIST by June 1, 2023. Submission packages received before March 1, 2023, will be reviewed for completeness by NIST; the submitters will be notified of any deficiencies by March 31, 2023, allowing time for deficient packages to be amended by the submission deadline. No amendments to packages will be permitted after the submission deadline, except at specified times during the evaluation phase (see Section 5).

*NEW* Previously, NIST has required the signed intellectual property statements specified in Section 2.D to be mailed in. NIST can now accept digitally signed (or digitally scanned) versions of the intellectual property statements. The entire submission package can be sent as email to: [email protected]. Alternatively, it can be mailed to Dustin Moody, Information Technology Laboratory, Attention: Post-Quantum Cryptographic Algorithm Submissions, 100 Bureau Drive – Stop 8930, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8930.

“Complete and proper” submission packages will be posted at http://www.nist.gov/projects/pqc-dig-sig. To be considered as a “complete” submission, packages must contain the following:

• Cover Sheet
• Algorithm Specifications and Supporting Documentation
• Optical Media
• Intellectual Property Statements / Agreements / Disclosures
  • 2.D.1 Statement by Each Submitter
  • 2.D.2 Statement by Patent (and Patent Application) Owner(s)
  • 2.D.3 Statement by Reference/Optimized Implementations’ Owner(s)

Full requirements are in the Call for Additional Digital Signature Schemes for the Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Process (PDF)

To be considered as a “proper” submission, packages must meet the minimum acceptability requirements 1-4, as specified in Section 3. 

Created August 29, 2022, Updated September 24, 2025